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All That's Beautiful Drifts Away
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 13, 2003 | JOHN GROSS

Posted on 11/13/2003 6:04:36 AM PST by OESY

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It was one of W.B. Yeats's deepest beliefs that a true poet always writes out of his personal life, but only after his experience has been transmuted into a myth. "He is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete."


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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Poetry; The Poetry Branch
KEYWORDS: ireland; yeats
W.B. YEATS, By R.F. Foster (Oxford, 798 pages, $45)

Occult beliefs, a Nobel Prize, the whirligig of politics . . . and the late, great poems.

1 posted on 11/13/2003 6:04:37 AM PST by OESY
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To: OESY
Thanks for posting this. I've been waiting for this book to come out.
2 posted on 12/04/2003 5:19:48 AM PST by yankeedog (I wasn't born in the South, but I got here as soon as I could.)
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